Child Undernutrition and Infant and Young Child Feeding Indicators: A Secondary Analysis of Edhs 2011
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hagos Seifu | |
| dc.contributor.author | Demiss Mastewal | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-12T08:09:18Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-06T09:01:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-12T08:09:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-06T09:01:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: - Optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices play an importantrole in reducing early childhood morbidity and mortality, as well as in improving early childgrowth and development. There are different predictors of child nutritional outcomes likeeconomic and contextual factors. But infant nutritional status (stunting, wasting andunderweight) can be associated with an immediate cause such as infant feeding practice. Objectives: To determine the association between WHO core IYCF indicator and differentforms of child under nutrition in Ethiopia. Methods: Data from the 2011 Ethiopia Demographic Health Surveys (EDHS), which isnationally representative data, were used. The study subjects were Last born infants and theirmothers.Analyses were conducted using multiple linear regression and logisticregressionanalyses adjusted for the complex survey design of the survey, controllingfor child, maternal andhousehold characteristics.Regression models used the ‘svy’ command in STATA to ensure thastandard errors &adjusted for the complex survey design. Result: A total of 3826 children are included in the analysis. After adjusting for possibleconfounders minimum acceptable diet (AOR 0.39, 95%CI 0.18-0.84) & minimum diet diversitywith (AOR 0.48 95% 0.24-0.96) was found to be significantly associated with stunting. Similarlyminimum acceptable diet (AOR 0.36, 95%CI 0.13-0.98) & minimum diet diversity (0.33 95%CI(0.12-0.87) was found to be significantly associated with underweight. Among the IYCFindicators only minimum meal frequency (AOR 0.70, 95% 0.51-0.96) was found to besignificantly associated with wasting.But exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) had no association withunderweight. Conclusion & Recommendation: Achieving Minimum acceptable diet and minimum dietdiversity are protective against stunting and underweight. And minimum meal frequency wasstill protective against wasting. Programmatic interventions that support a focus oncomplementary feeding and EBF should be implemented. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/8292 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Child Undernutrition Young Child Feeding | en_US |
| dc.title | Child Undernutrition and Infant and Young Child Feeding Indicators: A Secondary Analysis of Edhs 2011 | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |